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Old 23rd Aug 2014, 06:47
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Good Day Sir Pelikal,

Lost the ability to click the search button have we ?

Try :

http://www.pprune.org/computer-inter...va-update.html

or

http://www.pprune.org/computer-inter...-problems.html

Java programs used to be used to provide interactive graphics on billions of websites. These were small, stand-alone programs are called Java Applets and provided some amazing graphics and multiple levels of intense information within webpages.
There, fixed that for ya' onetrack

Quite frankly, on today's internet, I think you'd be hard pushed to find "billions of websites" using Java applets. Adobe Flash is far more likely, or the bleeding edge guys will be following the trend of increasing usage of HTML5.

The only place I come across java applets these days isn't for graphics, but more for specific business applications, e.g. some of the subscription services used in the financial industry.

Java still has a role in the modern world, but it ain't client-side applets.... its server-side J2EE.

(As an aside, no, JavaScript has nothing to do with traditional Java .... and yes, I despise the way JavaScript is abused by lazy developers these days to do stuff client-side which should be done server-side)
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